"The Zoosemiotics of Sheep Herding with Dogs," in The Semiotics of Animal Representations (2013)

"Literature and Ecology," in Teaching Ecocrticism and Green Studies (2012)

"Merleau-Ponty's Ecophenomenology," in Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches (2011)

"Merleau-Ponty's Human-Animal Intertwining," Configurations (2010

"Virginia Woolf and the Flesh of the World" (New Literary History 1999)

"Darwin in Arcadia: Brute Being and the Human Animal Dance from Gilgamesh to Virginia Woolf" (Anglia 2006)

"Literature, the Environment, and the Question of the Posthuman" (Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies 2006)

"Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: Ecopoetics and the Problem of Humanism" (Culture, Creativity and Environment 2007).

Statement

I teach in both the English Department and the Environmental Studies Program. My current research focuses on ecophenomenology and literature, animality, and embodiment in language. A related activity is herding sheep with Australian Kelpies, a good way to learn and develop cross-species communication. Recent conference presentations have been

"The Human/Animality Dance of Sheep Herding," which draws upon Vicki Hearne's and Donna Haraway's work but extends their considerations with the phenomenological attention to language of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.